No going back? Europeans seek unity as transatlantic ties hit new low
While the world waited Wednesday on what Donald Trump would utter on Greenland, what if we missed the bigger picture? That for 73 minutes, the US president before an audience of traditional transatlantic allies in Davos, hurled invectives and insults while doubling down on what’s now official US policy, the assessment that Europe’s a continent in civilizational decline, implied in that, overrun by non-Christians and non-whites. How do Europeans respond? Even far-right aficionados of MAGA have a hard time with the Greenland grab.